Intuit Reviews in San Diego, CA Area

Pros

Good benefits, flexible working schedule

Cons

Technical skills not highly valued.

Advice to Senior Management

Technical skills is not everything, but there should be a bar for engineers

Pros

The company is located in sunny California and has a beautiful campus. It's located near a nice walking trail and has basketball courts and other nice facilities.

Cons

A lot of the people are obnoxious and arrogant. They have little skills and are unwilling or incapable of sharing and do not want to learn new methods. To be frank, a rolling stone gathers no moss. The sitting stones are paralyzed and unorganized but have important associations that keep them put. A completely dishonest workplace.

Advice to Senior Management

The Service Delivery Manager and team are a siv for talent and cause the company to lose approximately 30% of the engineering salaries annually because of turnovers based on favoritism or other corrupt practices. Change this process and have them accountable to the teams that they support.

Pros

This company is very flexible when it comes to time off

Cons

Uses up it's personnel then gets rid of them

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your talent

Pros

Above average salary, especially for San Diego
Great Amenities (gym membership included, free parking, nice cafeteria, pleasant public spaces), corporate charity giving
Some extremely smart colleagues and a fast-moving, interesting ambiance that always provides plenty of opportunities to learn new things
Time off provided for employees to volunteer for a variety of causes

Cons

Lack of consistency in management styles, lack of communication between teams, tends to be extremely clique-ish, some obvious favoritism
Limited career mobility, although they tout career development and growth as one of the main reasons to work at Intuit.

Advice to Senior Management

Reconsider the number of meetings scheduled and give people more opportunities to "try on" other roles on an informal basis.

Pros

There are lots of great technologies to be exposed to. There are some very good people that have rubbed off on me.

Cons

The politics at Intuit are like no other mature corporation. It's more like a high school. I've witness very unfair and unethical practices on a daily basis. The lack of communication from peers that are only in it for themselves and Managers who are stuck in their comfort zone is intolerable. This comfort has generated some very lazy and dishonest co-workers and management.

Advice to Senior Management

More training on dealing with people. More transparency is highly recommended.

Pros

employee friendly in general and great brains in Business Units but IT is not a place to be proud to work for.

Cons

No growth opportunity. All the senior open positions are given to friends of senior management and often inexperience and incompetent people are hired for open positions. Hence its hard to grow in Intuit IT.

Advice to Senior Management

Pls talk to engineers and middle management. Get a true picture of what is really going on. Don't believe in everything you hear from directors and stop wasting company's money and resources on people not qualified to be on the job.

Pros

Good Pay,
Good Benefits
Decent Bonus

Cons

There is NO work/life balance (It's amazing that they defy their own mantra).
Incompetent QA Managers
Lack of direction from managment
Chaos in product process
Extremely two-faced environment
Over-confident, but mediocre developers

Advice to Senior Management

Review Management performance. Fire those using PIP as a tool to release intelligent employees due to personality clicks.

Pros

Innovative company with a strong mission and value system. Leadership understands the quality of people and how to balance work/life among all the stakeholder demands.

Cons

Seasonal consumer demand limits the ability to fully innovate, due to the cyclical nature of the business. This means at least 1 quarter is spent preparing for the annual tax peak in consumer demand.

Advice to Senior Management

Translate strategic direction to middle management and ensure there is shared vision across the multiple management layers. The rest will follow and as Intuit grows.

Pros

I get to work on interesting problems, have a real impact on the business, work with great people, and get paid well to do it. Campus and facilities are world class.

Cons

Only reason I would leave is that it's really hard to get promoted in Marketing within Consumer Group. It seems out of whack with the other business units and other functions within this BU.

Pros

opportunities for career mobility and development

Cons

Tend to lag others when it comes to technology refresh